IoES in the News
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Daniel Swain quoted in the New York Times—California Braces for Trouble as Record Winter Snow Starts Melting
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Anne Rimoin on Independent News—Nigeria Infectious Disease Society’s Boss Emerges Among 2023 Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People
Following its tradition where a renowned person writes the profile of individuals on the list, Anne Rimoin, a professor of epidemiology at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) wrote Ogoina’s…
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Deepaak Rajagopol in Daily Bruin: Inside the green campus fee that collects hundreds of thousands more than it spends
“I am not saying music festivals and fashion events should not be funded, but those would not be the first things that come to mind for the Green Fund,” said…
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Yongkang Xue and David Neelin on Phys.org—Tibetan Plateau soil temperatures are found to affect climate regionally, globally
To reach their findings, researchers combined satellite- and ground-based temperature and precipitation observations with global climate models. The models simulate climate outcomes based on data measurements, with and without the…
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David Neelin and Yongkang Xue in the Mirage News—Soil Temperatures on Tibetan Plateau Impact Global Climate
Over the past 20 years, UCLA professor Yongkang Xue has been learning how land temperature and moisture influences climate patterns. His latest paper, published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society…
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Daniel Swain in NRDC—California’s Climate Whiplash
“It’s convenient to have this natural time-released water storage in the form of snowpack, and we’ve designed a lot of our Western water systems to accommodate that,” says climate scientist Dr.…
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Daniel Swain in Nature News—Catastrophic Flash Droughts Brought by Climate Change Are Catching Farmers Off Guard
According to a new study, climate change is speeding up and intensifying droughts, particularly the fast-developing heat-driven type that catches farmers off guard. It’s the increasing thirstiness of the atmosphere,…
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Daniel Swain in CNN—Thousands of acres are underwater in California, and the flood could triple in size this summer
“The ground is literally sunk in some places by 10 or 15 feet over the past decade,” said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California at Los…
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Daniel Swain in Spectrum News 1—As Earth warms, more ‘flash droughts’ suck soil, plants dry
What happens is the air gets so hot and so dry that it sucks water right out of plants and soil. “It’s the increasing thirstiness of the atmosphere,” said UCLA…
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Thomas Gillespie in Daily Bruin—UCLA-led study discusses drought impacts on urban vegetation in coastal greater LA
The study serves as evidence for the public to help understand how climate warming has been inordinately affecting LA’s communities of color and what changes may be necessary to alleviate…
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Glen MacDonald in The Island Online—America-Sri Lanka photo exhibition
The Exhibition under the theme of ‘Sri Lanka in Focus’ is designed to promote tourism in Sri Lanka. As such, it will depict the scenic beauty of the country as…
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Alex Hall in UCLA Newsroom—How does your garden grow?
Professor Alex Hall’s work with native plants is in full bloom, with a weekend tour and podcast
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Oscar Neyra-Nazarrett for Startup Basecamp — The Climate Tech Startups to Watch This Month: April Week 1
Startup Basecamp climate tech startup series highlights Oscar Neyra-Nazarrett’s startup LINUS as an incredible startups that is “leading the fight against the climate crisis.”
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Daniel Swain in Porterville Recorder—Runoff forecast: Success Lake could receive total of 570,000 acre feet
While state officials stopped short of predicting specific flooding locations, the San Joaquin Valley remains a concern with UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain telling the Los Angeles Times some parts…
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Daniel Swain in US Times Post—California endured the fifth-coldest March since 1895, data show
Daniel Swain, climate scientist at UCLA, was posted on Twitter on Monday that “some regions of Northern California have just experienced their coldest March on record.”
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Daniel Swain in the Washington Post—Historic California snow starts to melt, but is ‘just a taste’ of what may come
The San Joaquin Valley and Tulare Basin are the areas of highest concern for flooding “In the southern Sierra right now, the snowpack upstream of certain reservoirs is enough to…
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Daniel Swain in Mendocino Beacon—The California chill: State recorded fifth-coldest March in 129 years amid storms, snow
Last year’s March was the 11th warmest in the 129 years of record keeping. Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at UCLA, posted Monday on Twitter that “a few regions of Northern California just experienced their…
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James McWilliams in nature.com—Wind-current feedback is an energy sink for oceanic internal waves
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Marilyn Raphael, director of the IoES and UCLA geography professor to discuss Antarctic sea ice and climate change at Penn State
Marilyn Raphael will speak as part of the E. Willard Miller Endowed Lecture on April 14
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Kevin Njabo in openDemocracy Podcast—Borders & Belonging: does brain drain hurt the Global South?
First, we’ll hear from someone who is himself part of the brain drain, Kevin Njabo. He’s the Africa director and associate adjunct at the Center for Tropical Research, University of California,…
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Daniel Swain in Newser—California Snowpack Is Huge, and ‘Big Melt’ Poses Risks
Calling it the “big melt,” UCLA climate scientist Daniel Swain pointed out that “all of that water is going to have to come downhill sooner rather than later.”
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Beate Ritz in The Hill—Lithium-contaminated water in pregnancy could be linked to increased risk of autism
Consuming lithium-contaminated tap water during pregnancy could be associated with an increased risk of newborn autism development, according to a new study from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Glen MacDonald in the Guardian—Communities of color take the ‘biggest hit’ in Los Angeles’ unequal spread of greenery
The city will see continued heatwaves, but a new study says heat-damping urban vegetation is unevenly distributed
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Narayan Gopinathan in UCLA Daily Bruin—UCLA plans to add more EV charging stations, support sustainable transportation
UCLA Transportation is planning to expand sustainable transportation and electric vehicle charging facilities on campus in an effort to reduce UCLA’s contributions to transportation emissions. Narayan Gopinathan, an environment and…
